>> it's gone! >> ama: a home run not enough to get the win but the petaluma little league team is grabbing the national spotlight and has become a source of serious hometown pride. i'm ama daetz. alan wang has the night off. great baseball action this morning. petaluma took on tennessee in pennsylvania. a local theater provided the perfect place to watch the game. sergio joins us live from pet human half. >> one of the players' sisters

says she is used to watching about 30 fans in the stands turn out for regular season games, and since this is the little league world series, obviously that audience has grope. almost 400 people packed into the two theaters here in jowbt petaluma, and then there's the national television audience. [cheering] >> reporter: inside tw packed theaters with local little league heroes ten feet tall this was a spectacular show to watch. >> it's amazing, it's electricca. i came down thursday. >> reporter: with each big play the crowd went wild and hometown power became later. who knows bradley smeght? >> known him since i was three. >> the petaluma players dominated the home run hits, bringing the crowd to their feet but in the end their tennessee opponents won.

still issue this crowd never let up. >> your voice has a rasp to it. >> i've been screaming a lot today. i. >> reporter: one of the key players in today's matchup and his big sister was among the theater crowd. >> everybody is here, so dedicated to the team. it's nice that everybody is taking so much time to come watch. >> though it was a loss, the grandma is already looking forward to the next game. >> we love you. one game at a time. and we like those home runs. >> reporter: and the good news is that today's matchup was not an elimination game. that means the petaluma players go on to another matchup. they're going to next be facing a team from new jersey. now, for all of the full highlights of the game, day tuned to sports. we'll have all that later in the newscast. reporting live, sergio quintana, abc-7 news. >> ama: a good time. petaluma's next game is tomorrow at 1:00 when they take on new

jersey. you can watch that game on the sister network, espn. >> to the big leagues now. there are new revelations about the drug suspension for melky cabrera. he was suspended for 50 games after testing positive for tests toster reason. today the new york daily news is reporting about a plot by the all-star outfielder to use a fictitious web site to hide his use of the banned substance. mike shumann is here now and the latest claim has tracted federal investigators. >> mike: go from what's right about baseball to waste wrong. we're no longer surprised athletes are willing to put their health at risk to gain advantage with performance-enhancing drugs but we're shocked by the attempted coverup by cabrera. an associate of cabrera, juan nones in the, took ten grand to create a fictitious web site and a knopp existent product to prove that melky ininadvertently took the banned substance. the idea was to create a digital

trail, suggesting cabrera ordered the substance. this would give cabrera chance to use clause that allows a player to prove he ingested a banned substance by accident. baseball officials uncovered the scheme as cabrera tried to challenge the test and his appeal was drop. this is the first such came the mlb has and hopes it ill discourage future attempts. nunez says he responsibilities all responsibility and maybe can i's agents had nothing to do with the case. mlb referred the case to federal investigators. the giants have no comment on the situation, and i doubt we'll ever see melky cabrera in a giants uniform again. >> ama: well. very interesting. thank you, shu. developing news. a wildfire is threatening some 500 homes near redding. the fire don assumed four home and is now heading towards tones of singleton and viola.

the fire charred 11 square miles. roads have been closed, including highway 44. the red cross opened two evacuation shelters in the area. one family lost their home and an evacuee was burned on his arms trying to escape the flames. >> i was on the road, and there were flames on either side, and i looked up and everything was black. it was like i was in a black pox, and i just drove through it, and i couldn't breathe, and then fire everywhere. you turn around everywhere, on all sides. >> the cause of the fire has not been determined but officials say it started after a series of lightning strikes in the area. yesterday dozens of light inning-sparked wildfires were ignited from a dry thunderstorm that moved over northern california. 8,000 firefighters are on the front lines of 14 major wildfires burning in the state. >> is the lightning still a threat? let's check in with leigh glaser. >> leigh: you can see most of the moist has really exited the

state. we did have -- i'll take you in closer, live doppler 7hd picking up a few little lightning strikes, just a few the north of mammoth lake but you can get a clear indication most of these are starting to wind down. wilt not be lightning strikes but gusty southwest winds, creating low relative humidities. very dry fuels as we head into tuesday, and that has sponsored a fire weather watch for tuesday for the stream northern portions of the state and the lake tahoe area. we still have the chips fire, the fire the lassen county and this where is the watch advisory is in place for tuesday. we'll look at the forecast coming upment. >> ama: vallejo, for the third time in a month, a vacant building went up in flames and tonight fire investigators believe squattereses are to blame. a vacant army supply store

caught fire. the first fire on couch street. the last one was right next door to this building of it's believed squatters started the fires. investigators are on the scene and say there are indications people were inside the building before that fire started. san jose police are investigating the city's 28th 28th homicide of the year after a map was shot to death this morning. happened around 5:15 on the 3000 block of central avenue. police say the victim died at the escape and day have no motive and say the gunman took off before the officers arrived. suspended san francisco sheriff ross mark marry -- marikimi says the voters point should not be lost. the ethics commission found he committed official misconduct when he grabbed his wife0s arm

during an argument. in an interview he said the whole legal mess could have been avoid. >> remember that the will of the voters should not be undermined, should not be compromised. regardless of how people may feel about me, my politics, what i have done, the most consistent and proper response would be a recall effort, and i've said that since day one. >> ama: the board of supervisors hasn't removed an elected official since 1932. ahead. from ali to enemy. the greg threat for troops in afghanistan. a man in an afghan police uniform has shot and killed an international service member there the latest next. also... >> the u.s. administration's war on whistle blowers must end. >> the publisher for wi

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>> ama: four nato troops have been killed by afghan insurgents, including an officer shot by a man wearing an afghan police uniform. this month alone afghan security personnel or gunman disguised in security uniforms have killed at least eight americans. this year there have been 31 attacks, resulting in 39 deaths. more than twice than the year ago. because of the danger from those men they're training, american forces were ordered to arm themselves inside and outside of the bases. the founder of wikileaks made his first public appearance since entering the ecuadorian embias two months another, julian assange spoke for two

minutes from this balcony. he wants the united states to support pretom of speech. >> i ask president obama to do the right thing. the united states must renounce its witch hunt against wikileaks. the united states must dissolve its fbi investigation. >> ama: the ecuadorian embassy is lined with british police who will arrest assange should he step outside of the building. tonight you can get an inside'sers look at the camp that's changing the lives of local children. share jennings takes us inside the taylor family foundation camp arroyo in livermore. you'll meet heroic campers and the inspiring people that make

the camp what it is. some call it a radical change in the way california teaches its youngest students. called transitional kindergarten. a look at the kids who will begin their education in p-k classes, and leigh glaser says it will be cooler this week. she has

>> ama: come tomorrow thousands of chirp will be heading back to school. classes resume in the contra costa and san francisco unified school districts and this year there will be fewer students at san francisco public high schools. the school district hat 500 fewer ninth graders. the district will receive less money from the state. the chronicle reports while there's a tee cline in ninth grade enrollment there's ain't an increase in the number of

students in kindergarten and sixth grade classes. the enrolement numbers reflect 2010 census figures. california is launching the first new grade level in more than a century. more than hundred school districts are expected to offer the first year of a two-year kindergarten. the transitional kindergarten is for children with birthdays in the fall who are too young under a new cutoff date for regular kindergarten. this school year the eligible age for kindergartenes moving up three months to five years old by september 1st, phasing in a month at a time over three years. the transitional kindergarten will be offer in more than 2,000 classrooms. we want to thank some people who have become part of the abc-7 sleep train foster kids dream campaign. thanks to locella of san jose, virginia of heyward, and sunia of campbell. just like us on the abc-7

facebook page and one dollar will be donated to help lop foster kids in need. >> a preview of the america's cupel. it begins thursday and final preparations are underway for spectators and boat sponsors. it features 11 boats from eight teams representing eight nations. here's the prime view can locations. for a full schedule of events go to our web site, abc7.com and click on "see it on tv", where you can find a link to all the events. for a look at the weather, let's get to leigh glaser. >> leigh: it's going to cool down tuesday, wednesday, and thursday. so, folks going out to see the america -- america's cup, bundle up. there will be plenty of wind. you can see right here this is the shadow from the sutro tower

right there, and low clouds continuing to move on in live doppler 7ht showing you the bank of fog just sitting off the coast, getting ready to move on in. we do have reports of winds gusting, sfo, up to 30 miles-per-hour, out of the west. so all of this sitting off the coast will just be moving a little further inland even out towards the delta area by tomorrow morning 90 in antioch. 83, concord. santa rosa, 7 5. mountain view, 68. san jose, sunshine, 72 degrees. how highlights for the evening, the area of low cloud's fog, maybe even mist and drizzle near the peninsula, and the coast will dissolve overnight. a slightly cooler day inland for your monday afternoon and then this brad all cooling trip will be with us through mid-week, next weekend we'll start to warm things up a bit. let's get you out the door

tomorrow morning, low clouds and fog. 50s at the coast. up 60s inland. sunshine, clouds near the coast. 50s there mid-70s inland. by 4:00, we'll touch on a few 90s inleafnldz 60s at the coast. by 7:00, low clouds and fog move in and a sea breeze moves in. today, transitional day. tomorrow notice this area of low pressure sitting to the north and west of us. this is going to be the cooling mechanism as we head into mid-week, so it will bring us increasing low cloudiness and fog, and the sea breeze will start to pick up. so get ready for cooling as we head into tuesday, wednesday, lingering into thursday, and as i mentioned the weekend right now looks like it will start to warm things up a bit. here's a look at the lows, 50s, widespread, few 60s inland, and tomorrow, 89 for antioch, 87 for livermore,

concord, cool to 85. very comfortable in the north bay, santa rosa, afternoon sun, 80 degrees. san francisco, peek-a-boo sun. 75 for palo alto, san jose, 78. a string of 80s from morgan hill, gilroy, hollister. hollister, afternoon sun, 82. 64 for monterey. this week it's going to feel like typical summertime weather around here with the low clouds and fog, pretty good stiff sea breeze wednesday and thursday near the coast, and quite comfortable inland by mid-week with inland temperatures in the mid-to-low 80s. >> ama: thank you, leigh. shu hires and talking little league. >> mike: i'm just the messenger. i love the heroes from petaluma took it on the chin. tennessee scored four times in the last inning to hand the petaluma team their first loss in

>> mike: the beauty of the little league world series it's double elimination. petaluma suffered their first loss at the hands of tennessee. two rounds score on pass balls in the first inning and tennessee, early 2-0 lead but petaluma ties it up. then smith drives a solo shot. second of the world series. tennessee regained the lead in the second. brown with an infield single. jake rut ger scores. now 5-3 tennessee. brandis, deep to left center. his first home run.

5-4. petpetaluma would tie it up bute final inning tennessee knocked in two runs. petaluma loses 9-6 and play new jersey tomorrow in an elimination game. the national league west race is heating up. dodgers beating atlanta. giants hoping to keep the lead going for a sweep against the padres. every sunday the padres honor the military by handing out free tickets and wearing the cam flawmg uniform. vogelsong, 3 pitches in three innings, eight hits and three runs, main bin singles and quentin scores, and it's 3-0 padres. in the fifth, cabrera, two rbi double down the line. that makes it 6-1 san diego. san diego. will venable seals it in the eighth with the solo blast. padres avoid the sweep. 7-1 the final. the giants head to l.a. to face

the doweling es tomorrow. >> a's looking to sweep the indians. who doesn't like coco crisp. a monster day, base hit, brians in pennington. pitcher parker, solid inning, improves to 8-7. brandon moss, bottom four, solo shot. his 13th of the year. 2-0 oakland in the fifth, who else, coco crisp, three-run bomb. seventh of the year. was 3- 5 tied a career with 5 rbi. a's sweep the indians with a shutout. >> 112th u.s. amateur championship win cal's weaver 'in match play. weaver led most of the match, got 2-up with his birdie on 1 but you can come back quickly in match play. weaver cooperate close it out. 5-footer for the win. it lipped out. so they good to a playoff. first hole. the tricky putt to win.

look at this. and he got it. the kid from ut shat new england ga, the u.s. amateur champion. heartbreak for cal's michael weaver who gave a valiant evident. >> toupeup for the u.s. open next week. federer facing djokovic, federer dominated the first set. 6-love in only 230 minutes. novak woke up in the second. but federer's record fifth win. ending novak's streak of 15 victories. next up the u.s. open. >> ama: thank you, shu. still to come, a ride of a lifetime. a

>> ama: coming up in a half hour at 6:00, big heart' big goals. a little girl's dream to fight human trafficking helped her raise tens of thousands of dollars and all with lemonade. a dramatic rescue after a man is stuck in a well for more than 24 hours. >> the navy's oldest commissioned warship sail under her open power for the second time in a century. the u.s. ss constitution sailed into boston harbor, to commemorate the war of 1812 that won the ship the name old iron sides because the enemy cannon balz seemed to bounce off the ship. the last time old ironsides sailed on her own was which 1997 to celebrate her 200th